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nancy a massive car blast killed at least sixteen people outside a hospital in the libyan city of benghazi this is the latest footage we're getting from the scene right now. police in the you are set hunting for a group of gunmen who went on a shooting rampage during a mother's day parade in new orleans injuring nineteen people. and spyware made by a british farmer has allegedly been used to snoop on civilians and activists in bahrain we hear from a rights campaigner who is raising their long arm of the intrusive sabella as methods being used in her country.
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this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the problem. a first a car bomb has exploded in libya's second largest city in gaza the blast went off in a crowded area outside a hospital and our assy correspondent paula slee has more now hello there paula so tell us this has all just happened what's going on there. well yes i mean richard beginning to receive the first information now what i can train your very problem has exploded outside a hospital in the eastern libyan city of god the at least fifteen people have been killed or not it according to your view b.p. interior minister who we're now hearing from a different community that number has climbed to fear and change and to create on the children were all became appalled at me a few people have been wounded now doctors fear. only one of the body has aligned
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in ecological hospital in cracked which will make it difficult to need acute gabbling the number of people that had been killed the car bomb exploded in the middle of the day in a crowded area it took to the parking lot of. the court and according to eyewitness three people were running and had been well collection body parts it can't follow a stream of bali bombing him being garbage in recent days acuity is curious across a former libyan leader and one that got people to read current at the end of april there was a car bomb that exploded our practice range in the human capital three people critically and just a few today two police stations were attacked three more were attacked over the last month your claim that we are being are the on friday the u.k. announced that pulling out if indeed he starts a good weekend of washington and the agree intensive and curious situation on the ground in libya. all right our middle east correspondent paula slayer there paula thank you very much and of course you can track all the latest developments from
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being gaza on our web site r c dot com we've gotten video footage there and eyewitness accounts from the scene of the blast. police in louisiana hunting down several gunman who opened fire on a crowd during mother's day celebrations nineteen people were injured in the broad daylight of time during a street parade in new orleans the incident opened wounds that many in america thought were just beginning to hail his get a check our reports. new orleans was celebrating mother's day with over three hundred people participating in a parade police say three individuals are believed to be responsible for starting a shootout two four of the wounded though are believed to be in critical condition another public event another tragedy there is a manhunt underway for the three suspects who police believe have managed to escape one of them is reportedly wounded in the same way as investigators of the boston
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marathon bombers appealed for crowd sourced photographs new orleans police have urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just in boston the police are drawing the public into the manhunt certainly putting nearby neighborhoods on high alert police are going door to door in search for suspects and of course everyone is hopeful that they will find them but at the same time many are looking at these recent public events which are gun terribly wrong in thinking where the law enforcement can really provide security at outdoor gatherings like this with the boston bombers there could have been early warnings that were missed the perpetrators of this shooting in new orleans we don't know who they are but we do know that in the u.s. there's very little control over in whose hands guns end up guns are freely sold their gun shows and online and all of this makes people nervous about their safety at public events naturally. and as always you can tell website full time the council what happened as well as images from the scene and footage showing how the
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events unfolded. also online keep up with the debate on the risks posed by firearms that could be produced to right in your home with three d. printers. the bahraini government used civilian software from the u.k. based company to spy on a leading rights activist that's according to documents filed in the london high cooled by one of the fine. ender's of the rights group bahrain watch the manufacturers say the program was designed for use in a regional in criminal investigations but privately privacy activists rather claim the technology is being widely abused the program named finance by can perform a wide range of surveillance operations it works by infecting your computer than recording your skype conversations and social media activity it can also take
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screenshots without your knowledge and access all the information on your hard disk rights groups now or hope that dr shahabi is a witness statement on the spyware can force a judicial review on the british government's failure to investigate where the technology is going and she spoke to us earlier on this and said the use of digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain it will say ever since former u.k. political official john gave became security advisor that. the e-mails were disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information and what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was
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a suspect this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the servers. received this information from the software is actually based in bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in bahrain which means that this is further evidence over the past two years particularly british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance in the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and infiltration amongst protests activists that happen using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yates and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british now we know of at least thirty six so being maintained worldwide so now that this is a global operation dam international has sold this software to at least twenty five
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governments and the use seems the use of the software seems to have no any type of restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so we're looking increasingly at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. the idea that britain would be better off outside the european union is gaining ground of prime minister david cameron's government the defense secretary has now joined the education secretary in saying that he would vote for the u.k. to leave the block if the referendum was held right now. reports now from london. this is going to look to many like the prime minister is struggling to maintain control of discipline amongst his own party. the e.u. if you know he seemed very senior figures within his own party education minister michael guy come out and say that he feels that there could be
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a benefits to leaving the event that sentiment echoed by the defense secretary philip hammond he said that he'd vote to lead if the referendum were on the basis of our relationship in britain with the e.u. as it stands today you know rather embarrassing for the prime minister of course because he's in the us at the present time to press for a trade deal between the e.u. and the us that he claims could bring ten billion pounds that the new benefit to britain now they become and the prime minister that really had a statement where he said when he's responded to these statements from senior figures and he said that he does seem to think there's a swing in the town even before the negotiation has started now this is in reference of course to his speech at the beginning of the year where he promised that if the party with a student with a majority in the twenty fifteen general elections that there would be in out
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referendum by twenty seventy i hope to those who renegotiation of britain's relationship with the remember a lot of people amongst his own party included want to see a substantial repatch ration of powers from the e.u. but of course there were many unanswered questions predominate they would actually be considered a failure because of course if there's no guarantee whatsoever the person would i get that renegotiation of a relationship that's going to be a lot of questions about the prime minister's oglethorpe to within his own party this isn't any problem the split of the new issue is an old problem for the conservative party if you can imagine that the other parties right now are going to be absolutely gleeful so this whole family squabble is that once again being played out say publicly. version is not alone in voicing his discontent over policies in germany despite the government's determination to keep the european union the
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united there are now increasing science of divisions in one of germany's liners provinces above area a separatist movement is gaining momentum and he spoke with an easing advocate of bari of varying dependence wilfrid go ahead explain to why his state is losing patience with germany's commitments to things. but it's true that it's just the very has always shown solidarity and we continue to show solidarity even during the european crisis and if there are a large share of the burden but i'd like to ask the e.u. has provided the first bailout for greece the second bailout for greece but bailout greece billions billions and billions if i asked the german people whether they believe they will ever get even one euro back that they will all say no the politicians are aware of that and they just pretend like they're not but the worst part of it is that millions and millions of greeks are really between a rock and a hard place if you don't benefit one bit from all these bailouts i don't know
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anybody who's ever benefited from them because there's greeks you don't have jobs you don't have any income if you don't know how to provide for their families their situation does not improve this means something's wrong with the system it was at the time one more thought about greece politicians say the greece is only two point five percent of the e.u. economy so my question for my fellow politicians is how can two point five percent bring the entire one hundred percent to ruin. and you can catch the full interview with wilfried sean our goal at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. meanwhile it's all i took brussels where finance chiefs are expected to approve new rescue loans for greece and cyprus and later on we look at the greek only up to three years of contradictions from international lenders and try to find out what they found chile doing any better. than.
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a turkish sixteen fighter jet has reportedly crashed in the south of the country near the syrian border turkey is really true says it lost contact with the aircraft shortly after the pilot said it was a direct saying and we'll bring you updates on this as the information comes in turkey has made while the international community to take action against the war and government blaming it for saturday's deadly blast in a border town has detained nine suspects saying it has evidence linking them to the seaward intelligence service damascus has denied any involvement and that we should have forty six people dead and pointed the finger at turkey which it accuses of fueling the civil war in syria tens of thousands of refugees have fled from syria to turkey and that's made the borders and between the countries extremely volatile as aussies maria for notional reports. turkey shares its longest border with syria it's hard to imagine now but in two thousand and nine the two countries even
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held joint military drills across that frontier in what was a brief thaw in relations between the two while commonly syrian and serbian turkish they are so close but it's really only the border that prevents them being a single city people here joke they could have dinner in syria and coffee in turkey just by sorting through the gates you can see behind me but it's now closed and the relations between the two neighbors are strained like never before changes came up to turkey joins the chorus of fellow you need to states and called for assad to step down immediately diplomatic political logistical support for the syrian opposition has made turkey one of syria's key foes there are numerous unconfirmed reports of weapons and ammunition smuggled into syria with help of people on the side of the border either through airports or on land. often.
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absence of any convincing denial from the government given the government's policy . position when you look at the whole picture. damascus has even accused anchor of allowing the rebels to bring chemical weapons into country from this turkish religion at the syrian border you can see texas military base it's a well secured area with highly restricted access no civilians including journalists are allowed to enter the un they also use a special access roads to get in and out that are also closed for non military vehicles well if even if accusations of turkish involvement in supplying weapons to fighters in syria true it would be almost impossible to prove by supporting the opposition in syria turkey may pledged its loyalty to nato but this has come at a price hundreds of thousands of desperate and greedy refugees are fleeing from the
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war zone making the security situation on the border as tense as ever we spend more than eight hundred million dollars for the syrian refugees saw it's a huge number now they want jobs in in those cities so it is also somehow affecting the. stability in this region some say turkey is being used as a proxy by the western and gulf countries a hostage to power that's forced to pull the chestnut's out of the fire but there are those who approve of enterprise actions and think turkey should take advantage of that situation if the syrian regime it will be changing and i think it has lost its legitimacy it has lost its political credibility with its own people that the syrian people will not blame turkey or having chosen the dictator in the period when they were suffering turkey feels that these close region balkans coco's
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a central asia and middle east is a priority region so we should be the. power which has influence in all the laws regions echoing these were the two recent reports by amnesty international and international crisis group global independent movements the documents reflect the concern by western and gulf partners over what they call turkey's near ottoman imperial aspirations what these countries certainly don't want is their loyal ally who paid a high price for being a good team player starting to play for itself. r.t. turkish syrian border. ahead for you this hour the standoff began tunnel bait central count is deepening with a hunger strike entering its fourth month and the u.s. military force feeding prisoners to keep them a life that's coming out. of
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three stooges free. download free volunteer video for your media project a free video gondar t. dot com. this is the welcome back europe's finance ministers up poised to sign of billions of euros a financial aid today heavily indebted greece and cyprus a counting of big checks from the euro group to prop up that ailing economies cyprus is expecting the green light for the fastest three billion euro installment of its bailout agreed in march after turns negotiations with international lenders greece has been applying for lying rather on conscience actions for the past three years and it's now banking on getting another four point two billion euro
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a trial and it's also seeking approval for a further installment of three point three billion viewers later this year despite the greed government's claim that the money is bringing the economy back on track and many believe the country's paying too high a price for that help as much in a question our reports. as been three years says greece was granted its massive bailout by international lenders since then the harshest areas he measures have driven the economy into the ground but some claim that the risk hope on the horizon for grace and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy ferrous today compared to what it looked like in the last full year before it needed rescuing starting with the country's output g.d.p. an indicator of the standard of living that's plummeted almost fifty billion euros in the last three years while government data has surged by forty five percent so where do the optimists sounds while the good news these measures have improved the
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country's budget deficit this three point eight percent to put that in perspective it's now very close to the sets by the european union but for the greek people though of the most alarming trend is the unemployment rate that stopped twenty seven percent mostly the country's youth and that's going to get worse four thousand civil servants are being laid off this year alone with the number is set to triple by the end of the next year one expert says no matter how the number is set up now the money will still have to be repaid the greek government tried to image. it budget deficits by simply slicing the public investment. continuing continuously delaying that statement by these directions so in reality if if the greek
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state that they were every monday all those with which they did. this it's so that's why they insist that it does i mean listen to some of them remain and we've seen the no no. we meant to really prove that. so will the real aspects or the. government's agreement the issue of policy is the one issue recession the very big question the elephant is a room of this size this. is you know bailout agreement or live in reality they have in greece. and during an astonishing six years of recession is also having a harrowing consequence so is science in greece which used to be will lowest rate in euro are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taking their lives in public hanging or shooting themselves or even self-immolation
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while politicians and economists shuffle the figures as the people of greece being the price with their livelihoods and their futures. and some other news making headlines across the globe first afghanistan where a roadside bomb blast has claimed the lives of ten civilians and left many others injured in the southern region come to harm the victims including three children were in a trunk which had an improvised explosive device they were on their way to a funeral of two others who died in another explosion last week no group has claimed responsibility so far however in april the taliban threatened renewed violence in what they call their annual spring offensive. meanwhile involved gary opposition protesters armed with tortures have clashed with security forces and broken through police lines during post-election riots in the congress all sofia they lection was overshadowed by widespread allegations of ballot fraud members of the opposition are contesting the results which gave the former prime minister
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a partial victory he stepped down and made corruption allegations and mounting economic turmoil just a monster. this is becoming increasingly desperate of gone time of day where prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than three months both and hold the one hundred sixty six inmates at a u.s. facility in cuba cleared for release years ago but have been given no indication when they could be set free the hunger strike is a protest against prisoner abuse and indefinite detention without charge of the feeding several of the inmates against their will to keep them alive approx is that the u.n. human rights office has described as despite all the international criticism lawyers for the captives as well as rights activists say washington has yet to take any a real steps to resolve the situation. but i think it's such a sham that we hear the president say that guantanamo should be closed he is the
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most powerful man in the entire world why can't he close guantanamo well he can the question really is why doesn't he call close guantanamo he is lacking the moral courage he is lacking the political will he blames congress but really he has the power to release those prisoners who have already been cleared for release demand a speedy and fair trial for the other ones and bring them into the united states and close down the shameful prison the prison of guantanamo the force feeding seems to be a situation that is analogous to torture and this has been said by the american medical association and human rights experts they say that the way in which this is being done is so painful to the prisoners and those prisoners who have had a chance to get messages out to their lawyers have described the terrible situation
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that they are in being strapped down for several hours having these tubes stuffed down their nose and into their stomach and it says they say it feels like a razor going down their bodies so this is another form of torture and these prisoners have already endured years of torture in the prison in guantanamo. stay with us for a week's sports headlines with kate partridge that's half. the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america i notice pushing the keep you safe in any cost and blow up more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to
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search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy declaring if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that simple well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion.
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welcome to the l.t.s. bush show twenty six action packed minutes of deeds words and news from russia and around the world with me kate and here's a taste of what's to come. distance to scott rush up the mighty four want to go five points clear of the need to a health club stuck. around a gated in a pivotal weekend in the russian crimean me. however pre-commit three claim prongs that the year in the finals. losing to olympiacos who go on to be. a continental crime. plus talk about old maria sharapova misses the chance to reclaim the world number one spot from serena williams as the american wins her fifteenth career title in madrid. but let's get the ball rolling with football and with two games to go to scott have gone five points clear at the top of the russian premier league and on course for their first championship crown in
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seven years after thrashing lucky for one in the moscow darby which of on poor feet has all the weekend action. i'd. say scout went five points clear at the top of the table with just two games to go after trying thing for one of the committee the moscow darby putting the arm in one up after only six minutes. to make it through and then bog roll over to second just before the break to me to toss or poor go buy in for loco early in the second half but say to me are made for one of serious count courseware firstly comical in seven years. i've seen its hopes of keeping the title for a third straight year took a huge ten's of the champions or held one one at struggling rust of record signing acts of itself strong after six minutes but the tally diac of equalise from.
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